When deleting cookies on my computer, I see that some of them have my name. If I delete my "registered to" name in regedit, will this stop it, or should I look somewhere else? I'm using Windows Me, NAV 2002, and NPF 2002. thanks,

If ya del cookies youll have problems. Xample, i used Mcafee clinic, evrtime i returned to Mcafee i wuld hav to giv my user name&password and dwnload setup files again. I play games on line. If i del cookies i culdnt return to my game where i left off. I have to runsetup and start the game over evrytime. T.D.

I always delete cookies with no ill-effect. I just don't want my name associated with them. Possible?

Yes, whatever name you log onto Windows with will be the name of the cookie before the @ sign. If you simply do a Windows log on and don't log on with a user name... I believe it gives the name of the person who filled out the form & loaded the software. Here's how to kill where MS stores your name as the registered owner. WARNING! Messing with the registry can stop your computer from starting & cause major problems. START BUTTON>RUN>IN COMMAND BOX TYPE THE FOLLOWING: REGEDIT Click Okay. (Win 98/Me) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion From there you can edit the name in the Registered Owner key. (Win200/NT Users go here instead: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / Windows NT / Current Version) Double click the key & take out your name: Type a period or a dash and click okay to save it. Done

Don't forget: You can completely turn off acceptance of cookies. This is a turn off to some who like the personalized Yahoo!/Hotmail type thing. It kills that... you have to turn cookies on for that. Signing in to do your banking or whatever all requires cookies. I turn cookie acceptance on and off when I want to. I like the control. In Internet Explorer 6 go to TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS> PRIVACY TAB Click on ADVANCED Click override auto cookie handling Click BLOCK 1st party cookies Click BLOCK 3rd party cookies No COOKIES FORRRRRRR YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! Now Delete all of them. TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS>GENERAL TAB DELETE COOKIES Now type in WEB BUGS at your next search engine stop. Read up on those.